Stephen King
Author
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright."
Prison Life quotes
Prison Life
7 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Henry Miller
Novelist, Essayist
"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."
Stendhal
Novelist
"The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul."
John Donne
Poet, Cleric
"All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."
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